Kiki Ernst The original goal when visiting the Tropenmuseum was to see their exhibition ‘Genderful World’. However, when climbing the stairs to the top floor something else caught my attention, stopping me in my tracks. A tv screen was showing a Dutch, black spoken word artist talking about the way the Dutch history of slavery […]
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Afterlives of slavery – a small exhibition with a big impact.
‘Can the Tropenmuseum ever really be decolonized, being a former colonial institute?’, asks Mitchell Esajas himself in his reflection about the exhibition ‘Afterlives of Slavery’ – a semi permanent exhibition that opened in 2017 and is currently still open in the Tropenmuseum till the end of 2020. In the fall of 2017 25.000 people visited […]